Innovation Forum Podcast

Innovation Forum hosts a weekly podcast along with regular interviews with business leaders in sustainability. Each week, we summarise the latest sustainability news and announcements, and get the views of leading experts on business critical issues. Widely regarded as one of the best sustainability podcasts around, stay tuned for regular insights, debate and analysis.

State of play – The State of the energy transition: are we on track or falling behind?

The energy transition has seen remarkable growth in renewables, yet fossil fuels still account for ~80% of the global energy mix. Progress is undeniable, but ambition ...

19 November 2025 - 10:00

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Coffee Landscapes Forum – 10 Years of Conservation International's Sustainable Coffee Challenge

Join Conservation International for the 10-year milestone of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, marking the transition from our community’s first decade of building par...

11 December 2025 - 15:00

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How can palm oil growers thrive amid climate and market risks?

This week: In Colombia, Cargill and Solidaridad are partnering to help smallholder palm oil growers build more sustainable and climate-resilient supply chains. Leticia Kawanami and Joel Brounen talk with Ian Welsh about how farmer-led action plans, shared investment, and collaborative data tools are driving measurable progress – and how these lessons can scale across Latin America.Plus: at the ...

30 Oct 25

How can carbon accounting accelerate action within the forest and land use sector?

Achieving the Paris Agreement targets requires a radical transformation of the world’s food and l...

ConferenceWatch2: forest and nature positive approaches in action

Ian Welsh reports from the second day of the 2021 sustainable landscapes and commodities conferen...

ConferenceWatch: sustainable landscapes and commodities

Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh reports on the opening day of the 2021 landscapes and commodities ev...

Webinar: Regenerative agriculture in apparel with Patagonia, Primark, CottonConnect and TextileExchange

Join us for an upcoming complimentary webinar: ‘Regenerative agriculture in apparel: What does it...

Has business finally got it on climate change?

This week: Lord Deben, chair of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, reflects on the outcomes from ...

Tackling palm oil’s challenges in west Africa

Victor Tamanjong, assistant technical manager for Africa at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oi...

Why economic empowerment is the route to farmer community resilience

Peter Williams, president of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, talks with Ian ...

Food system transformation: How can carbon accounting accelerate action within the forest and land use sector?

Achieving the Paris Agreement targets requires a radical transformation of the world’s food and l...

Stop deforestation to halt pandemics

This week: Nigel Sizer, executive director of the preventing pandemics at the source coalition, t...

COPwatch9: did you really expect more?

In the final update on the COP26 climate talks, Ian Welsh and climate journalist Mike Scott give ...

COPwatch8: all eyes on Glasgow as COP deadline looms

As the scheduled end of the COP26 meetings approaches, in the latest update from Glasgow news abo...

COPwatch7: draft agreement made in Scotland, but not from girders

In the latest update from the COP26 meetings in Glasgow from Ian Welsh, news of how the first dra...

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